SPECIES RICHNESS WITHIN FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS

Variation in species and genus richness among families of flowering plants was examined with respect to four classification variables: geographical distribution, growth form, pollination mode, and dispersal mode. Previous studies have estimated rates of species proliferation from age and contemporary diversity. Here we found that the earliest appearances in the fossil record are correlated with contemporary familial species richness, abundance in the fossil record, and the independent variables considered in this analysis. Thus, we believe that the fossil record does not provide reasonable estimates of the ages of families and that the rate of species proliferation cannot be calculated from such data without bias. Accordingly, our subsequent analyses were based on contemporary species richness of families. Although the classification variables were interrelated, each made largely independent contributions to familial species richness. Cosmopolitan families were 5.6 times more species-rich than strictly tropical families and 35 times more species-rich than strictly temperate families. Families including both herbaceous and woody growth forms were 5.7 and 14 times more species-rich than families with either growth form alone. Although animal pollination was significantly associated with elevated familial species richness, the effect was statistically weak. The most prominent effect was that families with both abiotic and biotic dispersal had more than 10 times as many species as families with either dispersal mode alone. Our analyses also revealed that families having both dispersal modes were more likely to have several growth forms, suggesting that evolutionary flexibility of morphology may be generalized over diverse aspects of life history. These results do not support the idea that pollination and dispersal by animals were primarily responsible for the tremendous proliferation of angiosperm species, either by producing population structures conducive to speciation or by applying selection for diversification. Instead, the importance of varied dispersal mode, growth form, and climate zone in predicting high familial species richness suggests that a capacity to diversify morphologically and physiologically may have been primarily responsible for high rates of species proliferation in the flowering plants.     

虾夷扇贝家系闭壳肌脂肪酸与C/N相关性研究

以虾夷扇贝(Mizuhopecten yessoensis)的生长性状、闭壳肌脂肪酸组成与含量、闭壳肌C、N元素含量及其比值为主要考察指标, 在对比选育家系的生长性状差异的基础上, 分析了不同生长速度的虾夷扇贝家系闭壳肌脂肪酸组成与含量差异, 研究了闭壳肌C、N元素含量及其C/N比值与脂肪酸含量的相关性。结果表明, 不同扇贝家系闭壳肌的主要脂肪酸含量差异较小而相对丰度差异明显, EPA (3.59—4.09 mg/g)和DHA (3.03—3.46 mg/g)之和占比扇贝闭壳肌脂肪酸总量的47.19%—49.32%; 不同家系的虾夷扇贝闭壳肌C、N元素稳态性较好, C元素和N元素的含量分别为(39.21±0.04)%和(10.62±0.16)%, C/N比值为3.70±0.06; 相关分析表明家系闭壳肌C/N比值与TFA、SFA、PUFA、EPA以及DHA等脂肪酸含量呈显著负相关。因此, 在进行虾夷扇贝生长相关选择育种时, 可以结合闭壳肌脂肪酸组成与含量、闭壳肌元素C/N比值开展复合性状选育, 从而为扇贝闭壳肌高品质脂肪酸家系选育提供科学依据。